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Approval for #1363 and #1364

@JustinSainton proposed #1363 to help manage WordCampWordCampWordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. vendors when making payment requests, and #1364 to show a total for WordCamp payment requests.

One thing that we’d need to work out is a way to make sure that the vendor information is still accurate, since contact info, etc can change from year to year. I can see people selecting an existing vendor but not verifying that the info is still current.

We should also think about whether or not to share vendors between camps. It could help with vendors that work with multiple camps, but it’d increase the problem I mentioned above, and it could also make it harder to find the right vendor in a list of hundreds. Searching would help w/ that, though.

massive +1 on a budgeting tool within wordcamp.org that integrates with payment requests, vendors, some type of reporting suite, etc. i opined on this a bit in #events not too long ago. would love to see something like this.

not sure if it would make sense to integrate with existing budgets – I don’t know how standardized those are across camps. obviously, getting into reporting of any kind is sort of getting out of WordPress’s wheelhouse, but hey, i’m game if you are 🙂

Er, yeah, I’m definitely not interested in building Quicken as a WP pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, but the budgeting spreadsheets for most camps are fairly simple and consistent, so it might not be too hard to build a tool in wp-admin to collect that data and do some basic reporting.

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